Interviewer: after everything you've experienced in MotoGP, which year of bikes would you stick with? Not a specific brand, but with the bike evolution where you go, this is the best combination of competition and my enjoyment on it. In what year would you stop evolving the bikes?
Marc: I'd stop, uff... 2017, more or less.
Interviewer: Right when the wings started to show up...
Marc: Right there, right there. And in fact, for next year they've limited it but, but... it's been limited, but little, I don't know, you almost don't notice it because they'll make them different and, in the end, it'll have the same effec. But there, I think I would stop it there because you could see rac... I mean, being behind a rider helped you. So that.., what did that mean? well, it was much easier to have group races. I mean, I remember in Holland, in 2017, being half a second from the pace of the one in front, but in the race, stick to his wheel and follow him. Now, no, now with the wings it's like a rally. You go out, either you have much more pace than the one in front or you don't... Or you don't overtake. And when he overtakes you with more pace, you can't follow him, you have your own pace and that's it. So, I miss that.
Interviewer: Yes, now you know it since FP, and it's like you're saying, this guy has this pace, you already know more or less how things are going to turn out.
Marc: You now can't expe... before you could exp... you'd say, well, if I'm tenths off the pace, before 2017, you'd say, with the slipstream, I can follow, you know, the way it happens in Moto3, which it's even more exaggerated, and in Moto2 a little. But now, if you don't have the pace in practice alone, no matter how much you get slipstreams, you won't get it...
